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LOve swarm posts!! Thanks for sharing your holiday traditions!!!! MErry Christmas, everyone!

I love to see what every one else’s traditions are!

I forgot to add, every year, we watch Elf and Home Alone.

@Mrs. Bee – we also plan to do a Christmas movie every Christmas eve after our church service. I’m thinking “The Nativity Story” because of our Christian faith.

I love the hot chocolate idea too! I will have to do that. I have the most amazing recipe – it’s sooo yummy.

@Mrs. Blue – I love the nativity scene idea! how special and interactive!

@Mrs. Jacks – sooo cute. I want to do the PJ thing so badly! I cannot wait to have baby #2 so we can start this

@Mrs. Pen: Well if Mr. Jacks had it his way, we’d all be in matching pjs… so there’s always that option!

@Mrs. Jacks: hahaha I love Mr. Jacks!! actually I would love that too -but it’s not a very affordable option!

@Mrs. Pen: And it’s kind of dorky, you have to admit! For kids it’s cute , but parents, well… that’s crossing a line in my book

@Mrs. Jacks: i would wear matching jammies because i am dorky! but cute matching pjs are pricey, and i’m too cheap so only the kids shall match. also… i don’t think mr bee would be into it.

@Mrs. Bee: Mr. Jacks was threatening matchy footie pjs no less! It was very sweet, but I agree, not very budget friendly!

@Mrs. Jacks: @Mrs. Bee: hahaha I’m totally dorky like that too! And DH is such a sucker for those things – he purposefully tries to match my outfits whenever we go out. It’s cute. There is an HB member on here who did their Christmas card in matching red plaid footie PJs and they are SO adorable!

@Mrs. Pen: @Mrs. Jacks: @Mrs. Bee: DH and I both tried to buy matching pajamas for the whole family on the sly, but we also both nixed it when the cost hit $150+. We’re dorky like that, too.

Mrs. Markers,
Thanks for mentioning “Christmas angels”. I’ve been trying to think of something to do with our kids every year to “give back”. I think that might be just the thing for us!

Our tradition is to get hot chocolate and drive around and look at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve. Also, we have mimosas while opening gifts. I don’t think we can continue that one when we have LOs!

Tradition in my family is to open gifts, eat pancakes, then watch A Christmas Story. Then we go out to a movie, and when we come home, we watch Christmas Vacation while we make fondue.

Hubs and I usually celebrate “our” Christmas on the Saturday before Christmas, since we go home to see our families for the actual holiday. So on “our” Christmas, we have eggnog (spiked with vanilla vodka) while we open gifts, then we have a full Harry Potter movie marathon. And I usually make a special breakfast and special dinner. This year it was overnight nutella french toast for breakfast, and steak, lobster mac & cheese, and spinach for dinner.

I imagine all of this will change a bit once LO arrives. I’d like to wake up in our house on Christmas morning and have a special breakfast that is always our Christmas morning breakfast. I’d also like to have one of Santa’s elves deliver a new Christmas book every year on Christmas Eve that we’ll read together before bedtime.

I love all of these. Santa doesn’t wrap anything at our house, so we will keep that tradition of walking in and seeing everything. We look at the presents and then open our stockings. I started a tradition of buying DH an ornament each year based on something important throughout the year.

When we have children, we will attend a Christmas Eve mass or Christmas Day mass. I’m not sure what we will do for breakfast. We have had prime rib for Christmas dinner the past years, thanks to my parents.